Many years ago when I visited my father in florida I noted that he fell asleep in front of the tv around 9pm and then woke up before 5AM. I can remember him sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee in the morning listening to the news on the radio.

Flash forward 30 plus years and I generally go to bed around 10 or earlier. I wake up at 430 AM and sit by the gas stove, have a cup or two of joe, read and maybe listen to a radio/podcast. I try to exercise (treadmill or walking the pooch) every night. It's a curse but the latest I sleep in ever is 7AM only after a super long day. Funny thing is I feel terrific.

Maybe we can share our afflictions?

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I had a lot going on earlier this spring and had to get up really early for work fairly often. Then I had a triathlon that I had to be at by about 5 AM. After spending about 3 months with the alarm going off at 5 and getting up by 5:15 or 5:30 at the latest, I am actually having a hard time sleeping past 6 now even without the alarm! And I don't go to bed any earlier.

I think you probably just need to force yourself to get up early for a while to build a habit.

Set an alarm around an hour before you want to get up. When you are awake expose yourself to bright light. You can do it gradually, but you want to make sure you have your lights on for at least a few minutes.

You can then turn the lights off. You should find that you don't sleep long and have less trouble getting up when the time comes.

The reasoning behind this is that exposure to bright light resets your body clock- it tricks your body into thinking that daylight has arrived and its time to get up.

... I guess melatonin and sunlight has already been touched upon, so I won't go into that.

- The key is to rise ASAP when you wake up, rather than snooze. To make it your conditioned reflex to get up from bed and drink a glass of water (or water with L-glutamine as I do, since i always skip breakfast and do intermittent fasting).

Once you are up and have drunk your water you need to move around somehow; jump around, tense your muscles, or do the dishes or something. But you cannot sit still yet, you must make sure that you're "up" before allowing yourself to sit down or become physically passive.

Do this successfully for a week or more and you will probably not have a hard time waking up early.

I'm a firm believer that if you need something done, you'll find out a way to do it.

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 10 years. I used to hate it, now I dont even think I need an alarm clock to do so.

To start, I would suggest establishing some sort of commitment to get up. Arrange to go jogging with a friend, and don't flake!

I have 2 alarms set each night, one next to my bed, the other is located on my dresser across the room. Not to mention my 2 or 3 digital watches that all seem to go off at the same time. I used to set my alarm on my radio and blast it so it will scare me out of bed, that usually did the trick.

I was once given advice from a mentor of mine, he said "if you do something for 21 days in a row, it will become a habit".

Tomorrow is day 1.

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